Trauma & Orthopaedic Consultant Specialism of Paediatric Orthopaedics
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and enthusiastic Paediatric Orthopaedic Consultant to join the expanding Trauma and Orthopaedic Service at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Hospital.
The post holder will complement the existing team of Paediatric Orthopaedic Consultants at MTW, providing general Orthopaedic trauma service as well as sub-specialising in paediatric orthopaedic surgery. A special interest in the management of developmental dysplasia of the hip and hip preservation surgery is desirable. The post holder must have completed a Paediatric Orthopaedic Fellowship.
The paediatric orthopaedic service at MTW has expanded continually since 2002 with patients referred from neighbouring trusts as well as locally. This tertiary referral service continues to expand with some 40% of referrals from out of area. There are satellite services to surrounding areas as part of a paediatric orthopaedic network. There are currently Ponseti and one-stop DDH clinics at both sites in addition to multidisciplinary clinics for neuromuscular disorders and an upper limb cerebral palsy service. Outpatient services are provided on both the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells site. Paediatric orthopaedic day case surgery takes place at both Tunbridge Wells and Maidstone, and inpatient surgery at Tunbridge Wells.
This is an RCS Approved Post.
Main duties of the job The post is for paediatric orthopaedic surgery. There will be an expectation to perform elective and trauma surgery, and provide specialist expertise in paediatric trauma. Fracture and elective clinics are held in Tunbridge Wells, Maidstone and peripheral hospitals. Day surgery lists and inpatient elective lists currently occur in Tunbridge Wells and Maidstone, and trauma lists at Tunbridge Wells. The successful candidate will join the General Trauma and Orthopaedic On-call rota.
About us The Trust provides general hospital services to a population of approximately 480,000 in West Kent and North East Sussex, and some specialist services to a considerably larger population. Maidstone Hospital has a stand-alone Orthopaedic Theatre with a 12 bedded Orthopaedic ward attached. There is a day surgery unit and elective and fracture clinics run daily. The Tunbridge Wells Hospital is located in Pembury adjacent to the A21. It is the first NHS hospital where all main wards are comprised entirely of single rooms with en suite bathrooms. The hospital is a Trauma Unit in the South East London, Kent & Medway Trauma Network, and has a close working relationship with King's College Hospital which is the major trauma centre for the network. There are 2 dedicated elective Orthopaedic theatres, a trauma theatre which runs 8.30 am to 6 pm seven days a week, and every weekday morning there is an additional Consultant delivered specialist trauma list. Members of the department are heavily involved in the regional orthopaedic teaching programme and in the running of local ATLS courses.
Job responsibilities
To provide a high standard of care to any patient for whom you have clinical responsibility.
To participate in clinical and other service activities and developments with the aim of ensuring a high standard of patient care across the Trust.
To work in close co-operation with other medical, professional and managerial colleagues, both within and outside the specialty.
To participate fully in and share leadership of the clinical governance of the specialty.
To participate actively in departmental audits, sharing co-ordination of audit activities within the department and implementation of change.
To take an active responsibility for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, training and supervision.
To assume responsibility, both personally and corporately with consultant colleagues, for the management of junior medical staff.
To ensure that all doctors in training for whom you have supervisory responsibilities undertake delegated clinical tasks that are within their level of competence and knowledge.
To ensure at all times that you comply with the General Medical Councils published guide Good Medical Practice.
To take personal responsibility for risk management in your work and undertake to review practices and learn from mistakes.
To provide cover for colleagues during annual and study leave and other absences as far as is practicable and clinically safe.
To ensure that you respond promptly and efficiently to all complaints related to any patient care you or your staff have been involved with.
To ensure that you develop and maintain effective working relationships with those agencies concerned with the provision of health and social care services.
To undertake an annual appraisal leading to a personal development plan as outlined in the Trust Appraisal Policy.
To undertake an annual job plan review as outlined in the Trust Guide to Job Planning.
You are required to take reasonable care for the health and safety of yourself and others who may be affected by what you do while at work.
Specialty out-patients clinics as appropriate for the post-holder's special interests.
Involvement in the development of clinical management protocols shared with the community and other consultant colleagues.
Person Specification Qualifications
MB BS (or equivalent)
Registered with GMC
Possession of CCT
CESR/equivalence
Completion of a post-CCT Paediatric Orthopaedic Fellowship
Distinctions, scholarships, prizes
Other degrees, e.g. BSc, MSc MD
Research
An understanding of general principles, scientific method and interpretation of literature
Evidence of personal research projects and their presentation
Publications in peer-reviewed journals
Personal skills
Evidence of leadership
Organisational ability
Able to take responsibility and cope with stressful situations
Able to get on with other members of the multi-disciplinary team
Credibility and integrity
A sympathetic approach to patients and relatives
Ability to establish good professional relationships with others
Critical and enquiring approach to knowledge acquisition
To have undertaken a postgraduate communication skills course
An understanding of corporacy in the NHS
Audit
Understand the principles of audit
Evidence of participation in audit projects
Management
Evidence of organisational ability
Attended a National Health Service Management Course appropriate to Consultant duties.
Motivation
Initiative
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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The post holder will complement the existing team of Paediatric Orthopaedic Consultants at MTW, providing general Orthopaedic trauma service as well as sub-specialising in paediatric orthopaedic surgery. A special interest in the management of developmental dysplasia of the hip and hip preservation surgery is desirable. The post holder must have completed a Paediatric Orthopaedic Fellowship.
The paediatric orthopaedic service at MTW has expanded continually since 2002 with patients referred from neighbouring trusts as well as locally. This tertiary referral service continues to expand with some 40% of referrals from out of area. There are satellite services to surrounding areas as part of a paediatric orthopaedic network. There are currently Ponseti and one-stop DDH clinics at both sites in addition to multidisciplinary clinics for neuromuscular disorders and an upper limb cerebral palsy service. Outpatient services are provided on both the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells site. Paediatric orthopaedic day case surgery takes place at both Tunbridge Wells and Maidstone, and inpatient surgery at Tunbridge Wells.
This is an RCS Approved Post.
Main duties of the job The post is for paediatric orthopaedic surgery. There will be an expectation to perform elective and trauma surgery, and provide specialist expertise in paediatric trauma. Fracture and elective clinics are held in Tunbridge Wells, Maidstone and peripheral hospitals. Day surgery lists and inpatient elective lists currently occur in Tunbridge Wells and Maidstone, and trauma lists at Tunbridge Wells. The successful candidate will join the General Trauma and Orthopaedic On-call rota.
About us The Trust provides general hospital services to a population of approximately 480,000 in West Kent and North East Sussex, and some specialist services to a considerably larger population. Maidstone Hospital has a stand-alone Orthopaedic Theatre with a 12 bedded Orthopaedic ward attached. There is a day surgery unit and elective and fracture clinics run daily. The Tunbridge Wells Hospital is located in Pembury adjacent to the A21. It is the first NHS hospital where all main wards are comprised entirely of single rooms with en suite bathrooms. The hospital is a Trauma Unit in the South East London, Kent & Medway Trauma Network, and has a close working relationship with King's College Hospital which is the major trauma centre for the network. There are 2 dedicated elective Orthopaedic theatres, a trauma theatre which runs 8.30 am to 6 pm seven days a week, and every weekday morning there is an additional Consultant delivered specialist trauma list. Members of the department are heavily involved in the regional orthopaedic teaching programme and in the running of local ATLS courses.
Job responsibilities
To provide a high standard of care to any patient for whom you have clinical responsibility.
To participate in clinical and other service activities and developments with the aim of ensuring a high standard of patient care across the Trust.
To work in close co-operation with other medical, professional and managerial colleagues, both within and outside the specialty.
To participate fully in and share leadership of the clinical governance of the specialty.
To participate actively in departmental audits, sharing co-ordination of audit activities within the department and implementation of change.
To take an active responsibility for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, training and supervision.
To assume responsibility, both personally and corporately with consultant colleagues, for the management of junior medical staff.
To ensure that all doctors in training for whom you have supervisory responsibilities undertake delegated clinical tasks that are within their level of competence and knowledge.
To ensure at all times that you comply with the General Medical Councils published guide Good Medical Practice.
To take personal responsibility for risk management in your work and undertake to review practices and learn from mistakes.
To provide cover for colleagues during annual and study leave and other absences as far as is practicable and clinically safe.
To ensure that you respond promptly and efficiently to all complaints related to any patient care you or your staff have been involved with.
To ensure that you develop and maintain effective working relationships with those agencies concerned with the provision of health and social care services.
To undertake an annual appraisal leading to a personal development plan as outlined in the Trust Appraisal Policy.
To undertake an annual job plan review as outlined in the Trust Guide to Job Planning.
You are required to take reasonable care for the health and safety of yourself and others who may be affected by what you do while at work.
Specialty out-patients clinics as appropriate for the post-holder's special interests.
Involvement in the development of clinical management protocols shared with the community and other consultant colleagues.
Person Specification Qualifications
MB BS (or equivalent)
Registered with GMC
Possession of CCT
CESR/equivalence
Completion of a post-CCT Paediatric Orthopaedic Fellowship
Distinctions, scholarships, prizes
Other degrees, e.g. BSc, MSc MD
Research
An understanding of general principles, scientific method and interpretation of literature
Evidence of personal research projects and their presentation
Publications in peer-reviewed journals
Personal skills
Evidence of leadership
Organisational ability
Able to take responsibility and cope with stressful situations
Able to get on with other members of the multi-disciplinary team
Credibility and integrity
A sympathetic approach to patients and relatives
Ability to establish good professional relationships with others
Critical and enquiring approach to knowledge acquisition
To have undertaken a postgraduate communication skills course
An understanding of corporacy in the NHS
Audit
Understand the principles of audit
Evidence of participation in audit projects
Management
Evidence of organisational ability
Attended a National Health Service Management Course appropriate to Consultant duties.
Motivation
Initiative
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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